Congressional Democrats and a public watchdog group are calling for an ethics investigation into the secretary over a land deal between Zinke’s family foundation and oil and gas company Halliburton. (Image credit: Alex Wong/Getty Images)

As part of a restoration initiative to interweave Monticello’s dynamic history, a new exhibit at Thomas Jefferson’s Virginia estate gives humanity to an enslaved woman who bore six of his children.(Image credit: Thomas Jefferson Foundation at Monticello)

It was a confession that cops in Stone County, Mississippi, will likely never forget. On the morning of June 7, local deputies questioned 29-year-old Terrelle Johnson about the gruesome death of his mother, Sherry Johnson, who was found decapitated in the backyard of the home they shared. Capt. Ray Boggs,…

A Palestinian was killed by Israeli fire on Monday near the Gaza Strip’s border with Israel, the health ministry in the Hamas-ruled territory said. An Israeli army statement said “several terrorists were injured” in an explosion as they attempted to carry out sabotage near the border fence, but made no…

It’s an old business adage: “Don’t ask me to do for you what I wouldn’t do to you.” Yet, if only the media had gone to bat for baseball’s suckered customers, the past 18 years, as it did for the Yankees last week. The recent imbroglio — no relation to…

HARTFORD, Conn. — A prison inmate convicted in the killings of two women has pleaded guilty to the deaths of two more. The Hartford Courant reports 57-year-old Robert White pleaded guilty Friday in the Hartford killings of Shiraleen Crawford in 1997 and Sonia Rivera in 2012. Crawford was found dead…